“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their hats and smile and demonstrate good table manners. They never show you their tails.” Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Does this have to be a new theme? As in can we take a existing fantasy book world and write our own fan submissions? Or maybe an alternate timeline story for an existing book and similar to that? As in just use the existing universe...but for a brand new story.

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"I shall hunt your firstborn children and laugh with glee as I tell them of your death in terrible detail, with many unpleasant adjectives!" - M-Bot

"Who needs science when you have a dragon?" - Neil DeGrasse Tyson in Sharknado 6

Does this have to be a new theme? As in can we take a existing fantasy book world and write our own fan submissions? Or maybe an alternate timeline story for an existing book and similar to that? As in just use the existing universe...but for a brand new story.

Hi, it needs to be original.We have a month (usually February) where we do fanfic, but for the rest of the year it must be wour own worldbuilding.

Does this have to be a new theme? As in can we take a existing fantasy book world and write our own fan submissions? Or maybe an alternate timeline story for an existing book and similar to that? As in just use the existing universe...but for a brand new story.

Hi, it needs to be original.We have a month (usually February) where we do fanfic, but for the rest of the year it must be wour own worldbuilding.

Really? I thought since it wasn't stated in the rules it would be fine. Interesting!

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I wish the world was flat like the old days, then I could travel just by folding a map.

I'd rather hope to keep fanfic at bay in general, as it seems like it pre-digests a lot of the work in a story and essentially makes it harder for those who have to establish their own universe, and riskier for those who want to write in a universe and under-develop it because they assume readers know where they're at (and might well not).

"She will need coffee soon, or molecular degeneration will set in. Her French phrasing will take over even more strongly, and soon she will dissolve into a puddle of alienation and Kierkegaardian despair." ~ Jmack

I'd rather hope to keep fanfic at bay in general, as it seems like it pre-digests a lot of the work in a story and essentially makes it harder for those who have to establish their own universe, and riskier for those who want to write in a universe and under-develop it because they assume readers know where they're at (and might well not).

Thank you for summing up my feelings exactly. I don't want to miss out on good stories about an AWESOME topic because I've never read the author's world they're writing in. But then again I despise most forms of fanfic because they rarely live up to the original author's voice and it comes off as forced.

Unless we decide to do a Fifty Shades of Grey fanfic contest, in which I imagine almost every single story will hilariously involve something going terribly wrong in the rich guy's sex dungeon. I could get behind that.

"She will need coffee soon, or molecular degeneration will set in. Her French phrasing will take over even more strongly, and soon she will dissolve into a puddle of alienation and Kierkegaardian despair." ~ Jmack

It's not in the rules, that's true. We just never had the case that somebody wanted to write fanfic in the contest before. I'd like to keep fanfic in 'Fanfic February'.

There are thousands of forums, homepages and facebook groups dedicated to Fanfic and this forum is not one of those. Most writers here have the dream of getting published someday so naturally none of them writes Fanfic. And while I can understand that spending time in a favorite universe has its appeal, it's not what we do here. We don't use worlds, we create worlds.

"She will need coffee soon, or molecular degeneration will set in. Her French phrasing will take over even more strongly, and soon she will dissolve into a puddle of alienation and Kierkegaardian despair." ~ Jmack

I was going to write a piece about a vet for dragon being called onsite to save a great rare dragon, found injured, and have a happy ending.

Dammit people, you don't know what you want!

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"She will need coffee soon, or molecular degeneration will set in. Her French phrasing will take over even more strongly, and soon she will dissolve into a puddle of alienation and Kierkegaardian despair." ~ Jmack